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August 3 - August 7, 2015

Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics

Online registration for this course has CLOSED. For information about walk-in registration availability, or general course questions, please contact the CME office at 206.543.1050 M-F, 8:30am-4:30pm PDT

This annual one-week Seminar is an intensive, interactive introduction to the four-box method of analysis of ethical issues in clinical care, developed by Jonsen, Siegler and Winslade in their book Clinical Ethics. The Seminar also introduces the Core Competencies in Health Care Ethics Consultation. Lectures are designed to familiarize participants with basic definitions and arguments in each of the major topics of clinical ethics.

With the aging of the American population and increases in access to affordable health care, primary care providers are increasingly caring for urologic disease. Men are disproportionately afflicted by urologic disease, and “Men’s Health” is a growing medical arena where specialized knowledge is required. This program will provide presentations on topics such as prostate cancer, bladder cancer, hypogonadism and testosterone replacement, erectile dysfunction, voiding dysfunction and kidney stones.

The goal of this program is to provide current information about practice skills and the diagnosis and management of a broad array of primary health care issues within family medicine, cardiology, endocrinology, psychiatry and behavioral science, neurology, sports medicine, women’s health, pulmonology, nephrology, infectious disease, chronic pain, pediatrics and gastroenterology.

We offer a wide array of interactive workshops to reinforce and deepen content that is shared in large group plenary sessions. We offer two ABFM SAMs (Self-Assessment Modules). These SAMs will help interested participants meet recertification requirements of the American Board of Family Medicine. These SAMs are applicable to ABFM MC-FP enrollees and are offered at no extra charge, although registration is limited.

This four-day program will incorporate data supporting guideline-based recommendations and recent advances regarding therapeutic options in patients with malignant solid tumor and hematologic disorders. At the end of the course, physicians will leave with a deeper understanding of the pathogenesis, diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic modalities available for common solid tumor malignancies, hematologic malignancies and the bleeding/thrombotic patient.

This conference will provide presentations combined with hands-on workshops using state-of-the-art simulations and live models. The first day explores a variety of important obstetric anesthesiology themes via lectures, debates and problem-based discussions. The second day will access the University of Washington’s state-of-the-art high-fidelity simulation center, the Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies (ISIS). The center will be available for small group workshops as well as teaching via live models. We will focus on ultrasound guided TAP blocks, ultrasound facilitated neuraxial analgesia and management of the unexpected difficult airway.

Heart failure has become a growing international public health problem affecting more than 5 million people in the United States alone. We will provide a comprehensive update on epidemiology, pathophysiology, medical economics, and optimal treatment strategies for a broad range of heart failure patients.

Chronic pain is one of the most common complaints of people seeking medical care. The vast majority of this care is delivered in primary care venues with only occasional input from specialists. The Loeser conferences are meant to help primary care providers improve their knowledge, comfort level and treatment resources in working with patients who can be challenging and high utilizers of medical care. Opioids are a mainstay of chronic pain treatment and will be discussed in detail with a special focus on issues surrounding weaning of high-dose chronic opioids. Other areas of focus during this year’s conference will include neurology, with specific lectures on neuropathy and headache and psychiatric comorbidity in chronic pain patients, particularly focusing on substance use disorders. The emphasis in all presentations will be on providing evidence-based and actionable information which PCPs can then use in their clinical work with chronic pain patients.

Case Presentations: During the lunch hour, an optional case discussion session will be led by speakers.